Thanksgiving and public prayer, the invocation of the name of God at the occasion of any major official gathering, are, in the practical behavior of the nation, a token of this very same spirit and inspiration.

Make the presentation much more prayerlike, an invocation for the Spirit to help us with our own baptismal vows.

True to form, he gave what amounted to a sermon, complete with invocations of god and a biblical quotation.